Request to help test 'guix environment'

Request to help test 'guix environment'

[David Thompson]

Hello all,

After doing a full rebuild of Guix, I've gotten myself in a situation
where guix environment segfaults.  Would anyone else be willing to test
and verify that guix environment works for them?  I want to make sure
that it's working properly in time for the release.

Running something like 'guix environment emacs' and verifying that a new
shell spawns should be a good enough test.

Thanks!

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Re: Request to help test 'guix environment'

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:

> Running something like 'guix environment emacs' and verifying that a new
> shell spawns should be a good enough test.

That definitely works for me.

Ludo’.

Re: Request to help test 'guix environment'

[David Thompson]

David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> writes:

> After doing a full rebuild of Guix, I've gotten myself in a situation
> where guix environment segfaults.

I've tracked down the problem here.  I was using a package defintion
that I tweaked to include a native search path specification for
LD_LIBRARY_PATH in order for Guile's dynamic-link procedure to work
without an absolute path to the library.  Mark told me that I can
instead use LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH.  This works without segfaulting!

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Re: Request to help test 'guix environment'

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hello,

David Thompson writes:

> Running something like 'guix environment emacs' and verifying that a new
> shell spawns should be a good enough test.

This did indeed spawn a new shell for me with a different `env'.

I ran `./pre-inst-env scripts/guix environment emacs' after git pull,
autoreconf etc.

HTH,

Alex

Re: Request to help test 'guix environment'

[David Thompson]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> Running something like 'guix environment emacs' and verifying that a new
>> shell spawns should be a good enough test.
>
> That definitely works for me.

Thanks for testing!

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David Thompson
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Re: Request to help test 'guix environment'

[David Thompson]

Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> David Thompson writes:
>
>> Running something like 'guix environment emacs' and verifying that a new
>> shell spawns should be a good enough test.
>
> This did indeed spawn a new shell for me with a different `env'.

Thanks!  I feel better now.

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David Thompson
Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org
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